The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Newspapers Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Newspapers Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Newspapers
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Newspapers When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Newspapers
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Newspapers The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Newspapers
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Newspapers Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Newspapers
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Newspapers A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Newspapers
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Newspapers I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Newspapers
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Newspapers Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Newspapers
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Newspapers Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Newspapers
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Newspapers My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Newspapers
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Newspapers Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Newspapers
